The focus on high standards has created a culture of accountability that calls for high quality teaching to help each child reach his or her potential. ... Critics charge that alternate methods of licensing special educators have undermined both the professionalization of education (Zeichner & Schulte, 2001) and efforts of traditional preparation programs to correct inequities between the supply of teachers and the demand of districts. ... Videoconferencing can bring live teaching from the public schools to the university classroom without interrupting a teaching episode. ...

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